> A lot of systems are using "filesystem as a database" semantics
> and just expect something like:
> 
>   user/key -> data
> 
> to scale indefinitely.

I know a company that hit the inode reference count limit, 32766 (or
maybe 65534) subdirectories of a single directory!

I suspect that a linear search may actually be the fastest form
of lookup for 'normal' directories - ie those smaller than a block.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk